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Blogs to Watch: Dust And Grooves

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Dust and Grooves Crate Digger Photo Blogby Joe Wallace

I love both the concept and execution of Dust and Grooves. Just look at that amazing photo of The Ohio Players greatest hits collection–just one of the many crate digger’s delights you’ll discover at DustandGrooves.com. There is a decent sized archive of excellent posts to crawl through here but it’s sad that the site hasn’t updated since late April–but Dust and Grooves’s Eilon Paz has been traveling so it’s entirely possible it’s just a temporary hiatus. (Please say it’s temporary!)

One of the great entries on the blog is the feature on European record collector Viktor Kiswell who had this little gem in his collection:

Porno Record Report

Dust and Grooves is one of my current obsessions–-here’s hoping this blog starts the updates again soon! GREAT work. Recommended.

A Handy Guide to Digitizing Vinyl Records from Soul-Sides.com

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Soul-Sides dot com
Soul-Sides.com is an awesome vinyl/MP3 blog featuring rare soul finds including 45s, 12-inch singles and much more. The music selection is fantastic and highly recommended, but the added bonus of a well-informed and non-snobby guide to high-quality vinyl-to-mp3 digitizing makes this blog even more valuable.

Oliver Wang, AKA DJ O-Dub, has been running this since 2000 (as a blog since 2003), so he’s got more than enough to obsess over in the archives. I’ve only just discovered this blog but am already impressed by the scope and quality. Bravo! Continue reading A Handy Guide to Digitizing Vinyl Records from Soul-Sides.com →

Blogs To Watch: Music For Maniacs, Stereofound, and Thrift Store DJ

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vinylby Joe Wallace

Every once in a while I like to call attention to blogs that have caught my eye, and there are three that I’m really enjoying. Music For Maniacs, Stereofound and Thrift Store DJ are all dedicated to the oddball stuff on vinyl that most record store shoppers pass up in favor of those albums by Modest Mouse and Radiohead.

What those shoppers don’t know won’t hurt them though–I’m all in favor of having the unclassifiable music left alone in the bins until I can swing by to scoop them up, doofy treasures that they are. My fellow travelers in search of vinyl weirdness blog about their discoveries and I am SO very glad they do.

Music For Maniacs covers everything from exotica to mechanical music. That’s right, music made by machines. Not COMPUTERS, mind you. Picture something on the order of Doctor Phibes’s Clockwork Wizards except without the animatronic mannequins. This blog manages to be even cooler with a whole section dedicated to sound collage and mashups. BRILLIANT.

Stereofound is dedicated to what it describes as “non-music” on vinyl. In fact, according to Stereofound, the blog is obsessed with “oddities on vinyl, found at thrift stores and flea markets. Think of stereo-test records, jingles, sound effects, instructions..” My favorite part of Stereofound is the Moog section, but the Floppy Records stuff is a close second.

Thrift Store DJ is on a similar bent in that it is dedicated to, you guessed it, the music that gets left behind in the junk shop. Continue reading Blogs To Watch: Music For Maniacs, Stereofound, and Thrift Store DJ →

Blog To Watch: The Record Robot

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columbine cw mccall 45 single

You might get the impression I’m addicted to vinyl blogs, but I love the quirky ones best of all–the ones that report on stuff that you didn’t DARE dream existed, let alone WISH to actually exist. Behold the image above from The Record Robot, which is a 45 single by CW McCall. It’s just kinda creepy to see a 45 recorded in the 70s that manages to resonate more than 30 years later with lyrics like:

“Columbine, columbine/
Blue in the Rockies/
Will you miss me, when I’ve gone away?”

OK, so maybe that’s a bit of a stretch, trying to tie that 45 in with more recent events…but still, any blog that manages to dig up strangeness on vinyl from as far off as Vietnam has my wholehearted support.

The album below features lounge singers from Vietnam in a variety of languages and now I am DYING to hear it.
Saigon

Vietnamese Lounge? That’s a massive undiscovered genre I need to hear, and SOON. Three cheers for The Record Robot for continuing to chronicle unusual vinyl finds since 2005.

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